We hold a huge, global, annual competition each year at CIMA called the Global Business Challenge. There are several rounds of the competition, culminating in country finals, and then the global final.

This year’s global final is in Chengdu, China. Our team on the ground have been providing a constant stream of social media updates, which my team and I have been gathering, editing, and adding to over the weekend in a Cover it Live embedded on our website and on Facebook.

Back here in Britain, I realised that we were in danger of swamping new readers with a torrent of updates, and that’s where Storify is brilliant. In less than an hour I was able to drag and drop video, tweets, and Facebook updates in to an easy to read edited highlights telling the story of the event. I *heart* Storify.

The introduction of YouTube’s unlisted option really makes it a useful platform for those  internal communications videos where security through obscurity (you don’t know where the video is unless you know the URL) is enough.

At CIMA we have a number of UK homeworkers and staff in global offices who can sometimes miss out on HQ’s successes (and vice-versa). This video was one of our first attempts to use a Flip Mino HD camera to go behind the scenes at an event, there’s clearly work to do to get better, but I think the Flip has huge potential as an internal comms tool.

I filmed the main event on our Sony HVR-A1E camera (purchased with the aid of the excellent and knowledgable sales team at Calumet), and you can see those videos on my video page.

The Flip HD performance is  much stronger in conditions where there is strong lighting, one of our exec directors took it out to Vietnam with him, and the picture quality is superb:

One problem we’ve found with the included simple editing software is that it has no option other than to export your video to the My Documents folder on Windows. When you use My Docs locations which are based on network drives, as we do, the Flip software can become very temperemental about exporting.